Old guy told me to stop using soap on my welding helmet lens

At a job site in Tulsa last spring, this 60-year veteran grabbed my helmet and said 'You're ruining that lens with Windex.' He just uses a dry microfiber cloth and a little spit for spatter... I thought he was nuts, but my new lens has lasted 4 months without hazing. Any of you old-timers still do it this way?

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emmafisher1mo ago

Yeah, that old timer knew his stuff.

mark_hernandez121mo ago

Hang on @emmafisher, I gotta push back a little. That old timer was sharp on a lot of things, sure, but he also swore up and down that oak trees cause foundation cracks, which is just not true. The roots don't go that deep unless you're right on top of the house. He also used to say you should prune in the middle of summer to "let the tree breathe," but that's when you're stressing them out the most, not helping them. Loved the guy, but he had some real head-scratchers too.